LC Sciences Launches V17 MicroRNA Microarrays

Houston, TX - The public miRBase sequence database serves as the primary probe content for many commercially available miRNA profiling microarrays. However, the continued updating of the database can be problematic for researchers using pre-made microarrays as the probe content of the arrays immediately goes out of date whenever a new miRBase version is released. [...]

Sheldon Manufacturing Names Jeffrey Johnston Vice President Of Business Development To Target Global Laboratory Market

Jeffrey D. Johnston joined Sheldon Manufacturing, Inc. in March of 2011 with a primary focus on Sheldon’s international markets. "Our expanded product offering, new warranties, and the addition of Jeffrey to our team, have us poised for strong growth in 2011 internationally," said Dan Sheldon, President of Sheldon Manufacturing. With over forty years of experience [...]

GE Healthcare Names Two New Executives

Chalfont St. Giles, UK - GE Healthcare today announced two new members of its leadership team in a move designed to drive differentiated product and service offerings that meet its global customers’ diverse needs. Tom Gentile, currently vice president of GE Aviation’s Services division, has been named president and CEO of GE Healthcare’s Healthcare Systems [...]

FEI Installs Advanced Electron Microscopes at nanoGUNE Nanoscience Research Center

Hillsboro, Ore., USA and San Sebastian, Spain - FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading scientific instrumentation company, and the Basque Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center, nanoGUNE Consolider, are pleased to announce the installation of three new advanced electron microscope systems from FEI. nanoGUNE now has the world’s most advanced commercially-available microscope, the Titan™ scanning transmission electron [...]

TGAC Selects Caliper Solutions for High Throughput Sequencing Pipeline

HOPKINTON, Mass. - Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP) today announced a partnership with The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), a leading high throughput sequencing and analysis center based in Norwich, UK establishing TGAC as a National Reference Site. TGAC will implement Caliper's NGS Bundle, which includes the Sciclone NGS Workstation, LabChip GX, and LabChip XT, [...]

Polyplus-Transfection and ExcellGene Enter Into a Supply Agreement for PEI-Based Transfection Reagents

STRASBOURG, France - Polyplus-transfection SA, a privately-held company developing innovative technologies for molecular and cellular biology, announced today that ExcellGene SA, a privately held company providing rapid and low-cost solutions for protein manufacturing and process development based on mammalian cells to the Pharma/Biotech industry, has signed an extended supply agreement for Polyplus-transfection polyethylenimine (PEI) based [...]

Harvard Stem Cell Research Lab Adopts the BioFlux System

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Fluxion Biosciences announced today that the Karp Laboratory at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has purchased the BioFlux 1000 system, which will be applied in their stem cell homing research. Dr. Jeffrey Karp is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Department of Medicine [...]

Life Technologies Announces Redemption of 3.25% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2025

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today that it has given notice of its intention to redeem all of the outstanding 3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the "2025 Convertible Notes") on June 15, 2011. As of May 6, 2011 there was $350,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Convertible Notes [...]

Implant Sciences Further Expands Sales & Marketing Team; Creates Government Marketing & Sales Division

WILMINGTON, MA - Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC) (PINKSHEETS: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, today announced hiring four additional sales and marketing managers, as well as the establishment of a specialized Government Marketing and Sales team aimed at serving the needs of domestic homeland security in the [...]

EMD Millipore Opens New Facility in Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Germany, today opened its state-of-the-art Biopharmaceutical Technical and Training Center in Shanghai, China. The 2,500 square meter facility will provide support, training and validation services to EMD Millipore’s biopharmaceutical customers with operations in China. “We are responding to China’s commitment to strengthen [...]

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